NEW ZEALAND SULPHUR ISLAND
One of the most extraordinary islands in the world lies in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. It is called White Island, and consists mainly of sulphur mixed with gypsum and a few other minerals. Over the island, which is about three miles in circumference, and, rises between 800 and 900 feet above the sea, thsre continually floats an immense cloud of vapour attaining an elevation of 10,000 feet. In the centre is a boiling lake of acid-charged water, co/cring fifty acres, and surrounded with blow holes from which steam and sulphurous fumes are emitted with great force and noise. With care a boat ran be navigated on the lake. Iho sulphur from White Island is very pure, but little effort has yet been made to procure it systematically.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 528, 21 December 1912, Page 7
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133NEW ZEALAND SULPHUR ISLAND King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 528, 21 December 1912, Page 7
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